Introduction: (Big5 Chinese)

XCIN (X Chinese INput) is an XIM (X Input Method) server which is widely used in Taiwan to perform Chinese input under X Window system. It is originally developed by Edward Der-Hua Liu (Oct. 1994) and many other programmers in early days; while now it is supported by the XCIN Project (since Feb. 1998).

This project is started by Tung-Han Hsieh and Chia-liang Kao, and now maintained by Tung-Han Hsieh. Because being developed for a long time in the early years, many people have added their codes and contributions into XCIN. This made the source code being massy and hard to maintian. Furthermore, the original XCIN releases does not support the XIM protocol. This makes it difficult to input Chinese into the X Window applications. Hence, here comes the idea of starting this project to redesign and maintain it.

Our goal is to

• Design and maintain the XCIN program, to provide a good Chinese input method for the X Window system.
• Follow the I18N/L10N/XIM standard, such that it can operate with the standard I18N X Window applicaions.
• Integrate the resources of XCIN, I18N, and Chinese input methods, to provide users a self-contained Chinese input environment.

• XCIN: The X Cinese input method. The stable releases and technical documentation are available here.
• Libtabe: The library of Tsi and intelligent ZhuYin input method engine used by XCIN.
• I18N: Introduction to the I18N environment, which is crucial part to run xcin. The patches of various XIM clients are also available here.

• Homepage: http://xcin.linux.org.tw/.
• Ftp site and Anonymous CVS access.
• Mailing list and newsgroup.

The other espects which you might interested in includes:

• The history list and the current status of this project.
• The old releases of the packages.
• The other related projects.
• If you want to mirror the XCIN project ftp site, please refer to the mirroring information.
• The tarball of the whole contents of the XCIN project homepage is also available.